Hidden Limit?

[commandergc]

i'm starting to think that KC maybe doing what VM does, when you hit a certain download amount the traffic shaping gets worse. yesterday i was able to download 300KBps from an NNTP server during peek, today i have downloaded quite a lot of stuff via steam and at around 7PM my NNTP download hit 9KBps and have not increased in speed since. i believe the amount i have downloaded today is just a little over 10GB. Could they be doing this or is it just coincidence?

[Hígh Treason]

I noticed something like this once when I was t... Purchasing a game online, I dropped from 990Kbit/s to 75Kbit/s

At the time though, I was still using my old networking equipment which did stuff like that sometimes, after a couple of hours the speed came back when I downloaded other things.

I've often questioned wether there is a hidden limit though, they probably try to give everyone a chance of a decent connection and cut the ones that have been making use of the speed all day.

[Ace247]

they probably try to give everyone a chance of a decent connection and cut the ones that have been making use of the speed all day.

And so they should...

[richardmyers]

Or they could chuck a few more Bandwidth logs on the fire :-P Everyone's a winner, except KC I guess as it costs them more to provide the service.

[Hígh Treason]

And there's the problem, KC have no money as it is.

[chriscoates81]

i cant see how they have no money after the amount they charge us!

[Hígh Treason]

You necro-posted just for that? 

KC only charge that much because OFCOM/The Law will not allow them to charge any less.

[bobthebuilder]

think your right there must be a limit so i tried it out today at 7.30 i put 11 gig download on and it was still going at 6pm still got over a gig left

[chriscoates81]

I dint realise the thread was that old its quite near the top of the post list and i was viewing it on my phone so i couldnt see the date. Oops